-Welcome. -Thank you, dude.
Thank you for having me. -I'm so happy to you have here.
it is very nice when people on Broadway use their Monday off
to come visit us. -Yep.
-So, thank you so much. I did not realize this
until today, that we were in a movie together
about a decade ago.
-I like to consider us co-stars.
-Yes. -Really.
-We co-starred in a film. -Yeah.
-The film was called "Spring Breakdown."
It was a film with Amy Poehler and Rachel Dratch, among others.
And you -- you had one scene? is that correct?
-I had one scene. I play -- Oh, God.
I play "Abercrombie boy" in the movie.
[ Laughter ] -This is not --
that is not a description.
That is the character's name. "Abercrombie boy"
[ Laughter ] -That is actually -- that is me.
That is me. Very -- One of my very first jobs.
-And what would you say your character arc was?
-Oh, it was really complex and really interesting.
I basically am just there for Amy Poehler
to take body shots off of.
-And there you guys are working together.
That is fully exactly what that is.
-Yeah, yeah. -"Abercrombie boy."
-Another one of my co-stars. -Another one of your co-stars.
-Yeah, yeah. We're super tight. -There you go.
-Yeah. -And this is very exciting.
This is your Broadway debut. -Yeah.
-Terrifying to do a -- to debut on Broadway?
-Oh, for sure, but I mean, I guess that --
that's really the reason why I'm here.
-Yeah. -Anna Shapiro, our director,
called and said, "have you ever done a show on Broadway?"
And I said, "no." She said, "How do you feel about that?"
I go, "Scares the [bleep] out of me."
And she goes, "As it should. Good.
You should do it." And I was like, "I don't know.
That doesn't really sound like a good idea.
Uh, maybe that's exactly why it's a good idea.
[bleep] And then I was like,
you know what? As an artist and as someone
who wants to constantly grow, you can't be comfortable.
You've gotta be outside of your comfort zone.
And there is not much more of an area
outside of my comfort zone than standing in front of,
you know, 700 people 8 times a week.
-There you go. Now, in the -- as you've,
sort of, worked your way into the middle of the run, do you --
you must feel comfortable now?
Are the fears completely eradicated?
-Yeah, it's funny. it kinda comes and goes.
Like, sometimes I'm nervous. Sometimes I'm not.
And the times that I'm not nervous,
that then makes me nervous.
I'm like, "Why am I not nervous? I should be nervous."
-I know that feeling. -Yeah.
-When you don't have -- I always felt like
when you don't have butterflies,
that's a sign that something is about to go terribly wrong.
-You're like, "Am I a psychopath?"
-Yeah, exactly. -"Why am I not nervous?
I should be very nervous right now."
-This is a crazy thing for a human to do.
-You do -- it's a very serious play with very light moments,
as well, which is nice. -Yeah.
-There is a dance-off in the play.
-There is a dance-off.
-Josh Charles, who is a fantastic actor...
-Yes. ...you guys dance off.
You do a moonwalk in the show. -I do a moonwalk.
-Is moonwalk in the script,
or is that something that Armie brings to a production?
-No, it wasn't -- it wasn't in the script,
but there was a moment where I'm on one side of the stage
and they need me to get to the other.
And they're like, "Can you do, like, this dance?"
And they do this dance, and I was like,
"Oof, I don't really want to do that."
I was like, "How about I just moonwalk across the stage?"
And they go, "Well, can you moonwalk?"
And as every actor has ever done when asked, "Can you do that?"
The answer is, "yes."
"Can you ride a horse?" "Yes."
"Can you sword fight?" "Yes."
"Can you steer a pirate ship?" "Yes."
If it gets me the job, "Yes."
So, then I say "Yes, I can moonwalk."
And -- and went home that night,
and the first thing I did is get on, like, YouTube
and type in "How do you moonwalk?"
-Yeah. -Like, what do you do?
And so now I'm doing it eight times a week
because I don't know when to shut my mouth.
-Yeah. I would have thought that your computer when you
Googled that would have said, "Armie, don't."
-Yeah, probably a better idea not to.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-You also eat a lot in the show. -I do. Yeah.
-You have -- sometimes, you have to do two shows a night.
And you're actually eating the food, I'm assuming.
-I'm basically the only one on stage eating the whole time.
I have to eat a massive bowl of cheese puffs.
I eat a Chinese food meal. I eat an apple pie.
I eat a bagel, and I drink a glass of egg nog.
-Wow. -And this all kinda came around
in the beginning of the show when I was like,
"Oh, this'll be really interesting if, like,
one of my character choices is, he's just always eating."
Like, that's a really good idea.
Cut to now, I'm like, what was I thinking?
That's was so stupid. But now, the good thing is is it saves me
money because when I do two shows a day,
I just don't eat outside of the theater.
-That's fantastic. -Yeah.
-And also, you helped yourself out because you put in
the moonwalk to, like, burn those calories off.
-That's basically all I'm doing. Yeah.
I'm actually flexing the whole time trying to burn
those calories off. -You...
Was one of the reasons you were afraid
not just about the 700 people,
but obviously, memorizing a great deal of dialogue.
-Yes. Yeah. -You posted this on Instagram.
I was -- A couple things.
One, it just is very telling that obviously,
when you do a show, you have to learn your lines.
And this is you. you wrote your lines down, right there.
-Yeah. it's one of my, kind of, weird compulsions.
I write out every line in the script,
'cause I feel like it gives you more attention to detail.
-Even other people's lines? -Even other people's lines.
-Wow. -Everyone's lines.
'Cause writers are really specific.
if they put a comma in one place verse another,
it means something.
It means, like, a shift in idea or a pause or whatever,
like commas usually mean. But anyway --
[ Laughter ]
But, like, it -- it forces you to pay attention.
So I write out everybody's lines, my lines and their lines.
Then I switch to just writing out my lines.
Then I switch to only writing out the first letter
of every word of my lines. -Wow.
-Until I end up with a whole page
of just random letters.
And if I can't point to a letter and see the letters
on either side of it and know where I am,
hen I don't know it well enough. -That is very impressive.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Don't -- don't applaud. I mess up a line at least every night.
Like, it doesn't work. -But one thing I really want
to -- your penmanship, Armie, is just outstanding.
-Yeah. I think I'm just old enough to have missed --
like, my brother has messy handwriting...
-Yeah. ...but can type faster
than I can. -Got it.
-I think we fall, kind of, on that line when computers
were more ubiquitous. -Yep, yep.
-On the wrong side of things, yeah.
-But also, if I actually sit down and write in cursive,
it makes me focus even more. -Yes.
This is -- but this is either -- if I saw this, I would be like,
"this is either a Broadway actor preparing, or a serial killer."
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
Maybe both? -Yeah, maybe both.
-Maybe both. -It's just, like,
there is a very Hannibal Lecter-y type thing
about a very nice meal. -Yes.
-And then crazy, tight-written script.
-You don't want to know what the food is made of.
-Yeah, exactly. -Yeah.
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